On 07/18/2010 11:40 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 14:34:46 -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:> > [...]> >> See this is where I'm getting confused, since I'm not entirely sure what>> the boot process is. If I boot a DVD directly, then it's in piix mode.>> Booting through refit -> Linux, it's in piix mode. So my logic was that>> it is probably getting switched into ahci mode by the OSX boot loader or>> perhaps the driver does it there.> > If this helps: I switched from grub-pc to grub-efi on my oldish Mac> mini Core 2 Duo (i945 chipset) and the hard disk used AHCI after this.> Suspend also works fine. So I would guess that the AHCI/PIIX difference> is caused by booting with EFI/legacy DOS bootblock, and the latter is> just done for Windows compatibility.

Great! That sounds way better. DO you have a pointer to grub-efi? I'mfinding some grub2 efi stuff with google, just want to make sure that isit. A grub 0.9x with efi would be preferable, I find grub2 to be horribleto work with in general...